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The digestive-tract disorder pyloric stenosis in infants may be genetic, researchers said. A study of more than 2 million children born in Denmark found the birth defect is more common among twins and siblings.

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The FDA launched the Postmarketing Drug Safety Evaluations website, on which it will openly share information about safety problems and adverse effects of recently approved drugs and vaccines. The first set of safety evaluations released covers 26 medicines that were approved between September 2007 and January 2008.

National coordinator for health IT Dr. David Blumenthal said he does not think the federal government is "pushing too hard, too fast" on health care providers to meet meaningful use objectives, but acknowledged that the effort will be a challenge. "While large hospital networks and smaller providers may be stretched to meet national health IT goals, it is not beyond their capacity for growth," he said.

More hospitals are buying physician practices while others are taking the approach of supporting EHR implementation for physicians, a move that brings the two parties closer together. "As physicians become more dependent on the technology and interoperate, they become more reliant on the hospital," one expert said.

The FDA on Tuesday issued a warning to parents about the potential risk of overdosing infants with fluid vitamin D. The agency also called on manufacturers to mark droppers in their supplement containers more clearly and to make droppers that hold only the recommended dose of 400 international units of vitamin D.

An HHS work group in September will propose standards that would ease the process for registering with state and federal benefits programs through such methods as electronic database matching and the maintenance of eligibility data online. "We need to keep it simple. We will be thinking big, but we want to start small," said panel chairman Aneesh Chopra.